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PAPERS OF :MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA~I.AR
doing evil for good, I am for Peace and all my Indians are for peace, and if you your Big Captain is determined to murder us and destroy our property we will be compelled to surrender and die like a Brave Nation should do. Times was, when we could have driYen the White man off-but we were their :Friends and did not want to hurt the White man. I want Your Big Captain to write to my Friend Hiram's and tell us the truth, I will live here till I die which cannot be long and I want to Know what is to become of my people- Capt S. C. Hirams Hirams' Bluff Trinity River will interpret what you may wish to Colutta if directed to his care- With respects
Your Obt, Servant Jno E Ross [rubric]
[Addressed] Liberty July 2 To
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Free
John E. Ross June 1839
His Exct. 1\I. B. Lamar
President of the Repbc Houston
No. 1327
1839 June 10, E. HALL, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO M. [B.J LA1\IAR, [HOUSTON, TEXASJ 34 Houston June 10th. 1839 Dear General The person who sent the Carriage for you, has written me, that he accepts the terms on which you propose to take it, Viz. at the cost, payments, to be made in 6., 12, 18 & 24 months. 350 dlls each making in all fourteen Hundred Dollars in New Orleans Currency the Carriage is therefore at you disposal
Your Obt St.
Edward Hall
[Addressed] His Excy
[Endorsed] Edwd Hall
1\L B. Lamar Present
June 10. '39
No. 1328
1839 June 10, DAVID PAUL BROW~, PHILADELPHIA rPENij- SYLVANIAJ, TO MIRABEAU fBUONAPARTEJ LA1\IAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS] Handy's estate. A. L. S. 1 p.
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